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| Full name | NKU Soccer Stadium |
|---|---|
| Location | Highland Heights, Kentucky |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Record attendance | 2,522 (August 21, 2016 vs. Kentucky) [1] |
| Surface | SportGrass |
| Opened | August 2009 |
| Tenants | |
| Northern Kentucky Norse FC Cincinnati 2 (2022–present) | |
NKU Soccer Stadium is a soccer stadium located in Highland Heights, Kentucky. [2] The stadium is home to the Northern Kentucky Norse men's and women's soccer teams, as well as MLS Next Pro side FC Cincinnati 2. [3] [4]
Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky. Of its 15,000 students, over 10,000 are undergraduate students and nearly 5,000 are graduate students. Northern Kentucky University is the third largest university, behind the University of Cincinnati and Miami University, of Greater Cincinnati's four large universities and the youngest of Kentucky's eight public universities. Among the university's programs are the Salmon P. Chase College of Law and the College of Informatics.
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